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D. B. WHISTLER & G. W. RIPSGH.

RECORDING AND COMPUTING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 29, 1912.

Patented Mar. 16, 1915.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 16, 1915.

Application filed June 29, 1912. Serial No. 706,576.

To all "whom it may concern:

lie it known that we, I)AV1D B. WHISTLER and CHARLES WI Rirson, citizensof the United States, 'esiding at Dayton, in the county of Mont omeryand State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inRecording and Computing Machix'ies, of which the following is aspecification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to recording and computing machines, is designedmore particularly for use with a fare register and is a improvement uponthe machine shown and described in Patent No. 990,666, granted April"23th, 1911, to N. I. Ohmer, D. B. Whistler and J. E. McAllister.

One object of the present invention is to produce a machine of thischaracter which will be simple and compact in construction and can bemanufactured at a relatively low cost.

To this end it is also an object of the invention to provide mechanismfor making three separate records of the fares received, or other itemsof business transacted, each item being computed on separate sets ofcounting devices and the three records being printed by a single set ofprinting councore.

A further object of the invention is to proide the machine with a systemof locks to control the movements of the several operat s which will besimple and durable positive in their operas r in construction and ticu.

The mechanism of the above-mentioned patent comprises two groups ofprinting counters adapted to preserve records, respecely, of a singletrip and of a plurality of trips and means are provided for printing arecord from either of said groups of counters. In connection with thesetwo groups of counters there is an accumulator, coma group ofnon-printing counters, which are actuated in unison with the two groupsof printing counters to cause the .me item to be registered thereon,that is, gistered on the printing counters, thus a serving a thirdrecord which, being indedent of the other records, may be made coverlonger period of time than either U; the other records In order to takea record from the non-printing counters the count is first transferredto one of the groups of printing counters, which have previously beenreset to zero, and then printed from said group of printing counters.This mechanism involved many parts and constituted a large machine. Inorder to reduce the size of the machine, eliminate as many of the partsas possible and reduce the costof production we, have, in the presentmachine, eliminated one group of printing counters and have substitutedtherefor a second group of non-printing counters. The two groups ofnon-printing counters are so mounted as to be actuated simultaneouslywith the printing counters and each group of non-printing counters isadapted to transfor its record to the single group of printing counters,the transfers being made separately so that a record of each can beprinted and preserved. Further, the transfers are made in apredetermined order so that the record from one counter must betransferred and printed before the record from the other counter istransferred and printed. These changes have resulted in reducing thesize of the machine to approximately two-thirds its former size and to acorresponding reduction in the number of parts and cost and has alsomaterially simplified the mechanism. In connection with the single groupof printing counters we have so modified the printing mechanism that therecords from the three groups of counters are printed by moving theplaten in a single direction, the trip and total records being printedby movements of different lengths. Also in connection with thesecounters we have provided devices or looks for controlling the movementsof the several parts to prevent their inadvertent operation or theiroperation in such a manner as to garble the records or to cause therecords to be taken n the wrong sequence. The whole results in a verycompact machine comprising a comparatively few parts and these partsbeing of such a character and so arranged as to be strong and durableand not easily disarranged or broken, a condition highly desirable in amachine designed for street car service.

In. the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of amachine embodying our invention showing the casing in section; Fig. 2 isa rear elevation of the same, also showing the in section; Fig. 3 is anelevation of the right hand end of the machine, as the observer facesthe same; Fig. l is an elev tion of the left hand end of the machine;Fig. 5 is a vertical section taken on the line .r r of Fig. 1 andlooking in the direction of the rrows; Fig. 6 is a vertical section of aportion of the machine showing .ne printing counters, the actuatortherefor and the setting mechanism for the actuator; Fig. 7 is a detailview of the counters carried by the several counter shafts and theiractuators showing the several sets of counters as drawn apart; Fig. 8 isa detail of the indicators and their operating mechanism showing theparts separated; Fig. 9 is a sectional view taken on the line 3/ 3 ofFig. 8 and looking in the direction of the arrows, showing the drivingand transfer mechanism for the passenger indicator; Fig. 10 is a detailview of the escapement, forming a part of the transfer mechanism, andthe resetting device for the passenger indicator; Fig. 11 is a sectionalview showing in detail the resetting shaft; Fig. 11 is a detail of aportion of the reset ting shaft showing the actuating cam in section;Fig. 19 is a sectional view showing the connection between the platenshaft and the cam plate which controls the printing mechanism; Fig. 13is a sectional view taken on the line z of Fig. 1 and looking in thedirection of the arrows, showing the locking device to hold theaccumulators normally out of mesh with the printing counters; Fig. 14 isan end view of the key-controlled lock for the machine; Fig. 15 is aside elevation of the same; F ig. 1G is a detail view of the key barrelfor this lock; Fig. 17 is a sectional view of the key barrel; Fig. 18 isa detail view of the key; Fig. 19 is a detail of the type plate carryingthe car number; Fig. 20 is a. detail of the driving gears for the in andout indicator; Fig. 21is gearing connecting the a detail view of theactuator shaft for the in and out indicator with the resetting shaft forthe passenger indicator; Fig. is an elevation of the same; Fig. 23 is anelevation of the operating device for the actuating shaft of theregister, looking from the frame member toward the end of the machine;Fig. 24 is a plan view of the same; Figs. 25, 26, 27 and are detailviews showing successive positions of the operating device shown in Fig.23; Figs. 29 and 30 are detail views of the locking devices forcontrolling the direction of iovement of the printing mechanism; Fig. 31is a detail view of the driving segment for the printing mechanism; Fig. 32 is an elevation of the printing handle and the devices connectingthe same with the printing shaft; Fig. 33 is a sectional View taken onthe line w w of Fig. 6 and looking in the direction of the arrows,showing the locking mechanism for controlling the movement of theaccumulators into operative relation with the printing counters; Fig. isa detail view of the actuating de vice for the several counters,together with the ratchet mechanisms for controlling the direction ofnursemcnt of the accumulator shafts; Fig. is a detail view of theactuating gears for the locking disks for controlling the movement ofthe printing mechanism; F 36 and are detail views of the two diskscontrolling the direction of movement of the printing mechanism; F ig.38 is a detail view of the gearing actuated by the resetting of theconductors accumulator shaft for shifting the locking disks; Fig. 39 isa detail of the alining and detent device for the locking disks; Fig. 10is a detail view of the locking device to hold the inspectorsaccun'iulator normally out of operative relation with the printingcounters; Fig. 41 is a detail of the locking mechanism actuated from theprinting shaft for holding the various mechanisms against movementduring the printing operation; Fig. is a detail of? the lockingmechanism to prevent more than one record being printed; Fig. is adetail view of the locking mechanism to hold the printing mechanismagainst movement while the printing counters are being reset to zero;Fig. 4:4: is a detail view of the locking device for the operatinghandle and the indicator; Fig. 45 100 is a detail view of the device forpreventing the overthrow of the indicator shaft upon its resettingmovement; Fig. 46 is a rear elevation of the controlling disks and their00- operating devices for the printing mecha- 105 nism; Fig. 47 is asectional view showing the manner of retaining the type plate carryingthe car number; Fig. 48 is a development of the cam for controlling theactuator for the total cash counters; Fig. 4:9 is a 110 development ofthe cam for controlling the fare counters; Fig. i=0 is a development ofthe cam for controlling the trip passengercounters; and Fig. 51 is afacsimile of a a printed record, the same being broken into 115 severalparts and including several trip records, two conductors records and aninspector s record.

In these drawings we have illustrated one embodiment of our inventionand have shown the same as applied to street car fare registers. As iscommon in machines of this type the active parts of the mechanism aremounted upon a main frame comprising end members 1 and 2 connected oneto the other and spaced apart by means of tie bars, such as are shown at3, 4 and 5. The mechanism as a whole is inclosed in a casing or cabinet6 of any suitable design. This a cabinet forms no part of the inventionand 16

